Clarification of Key Terms

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1.4 Significance of the Study

The study is important, especially for teachers, to provide clear view of what strategies likely appropriate and proper in teaching speaking, alongside the anticipation towards the emerging problems related to speaking skill so that the implemented strategies are delivered efficiently to students. Besides, this research enables teachers to selectively employ appropriate and proper teaching strategies for students in a classroom. As for other researcher, it gives benefitable information on teaching strategies in speaking implemented in the classroom in order that they conduct further investigation in the future.

1.5 The Scope of the Study

Concerning the aims of the study, this research is limited to portray what strategies used by the teacher and to find out students‟ response to the strategies by involving only a teacher and a class of senior high school students.

1.6 Clarification of Key Terms

This research may generate some terms requiring clarification which can bring about confusion and misunderstanding. To avoid such circumstances, the terms will be elaborated in accordance with the research. Those terms are teacher‟s strategies, teaching speaking, and Secondary level.  Strategy means various actions, behaviors, steps, activities, or techniques that either teachers or students perform in the classroom Brown, 2001, 2007. In the meantime, teaching strategy, according to Walker 1994, as 6 Agung Ginanjar Anjaniputra, 2013 TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu cited in Volya, 2009, is „a combination of student activities supported by the use of appropriate resources to provide particular learning experience process andor to bring about the desire learning product’. So teacher‟s strategies in this context can be defined as any efforts made and employed by the teacher in managing and organizing the classroom in order that the teaching learning process may reach the objectives.  Teaching speaking is a process of giving lessons to students, in which the objective is making and helping students speak English Brown, 2001. Teaching speaking in this study refers to the teaching of English skill where speaking as the main skill is taught to achieve the objectives. The research specifies that the students are EFL students, which English is taught and used as foreign language in Indonesia Lie, 2007.  Secondary level refers to schools or educational institutions above primary school Elementary School and below tertiary school University Level. According to Lie 2007 and Holsinger and Cowell 2000, Secondary school has the usual duration of studying between grade 7-12. Therefore, secondary school for conducting the research can be Junior High School Sekolah Menengah Pertama or Senior High School Sekolah Menengah Atas . However, this research is limited solely to involve Senior High School Sekolah Menengah Atas. 7 Agung Ginanjar Anjaniputra, 2013 TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu

1.7 Organization of Paper